Sometimes it takes more than a boffin with a Mac to come up with a killer app idea. Here's a top 10 of the best of the worst apps ever to be released:
10. The 'Battery Monitor' App: designed to monitor the power usage of a phone's software and apps so users can make their battery charges last longer. The app consistently showed itself to be the biggest power drain. Verdict: Complete Power Failu...
The days of dscipline in UK classrooms has gone and been replaced by groups of disruptive zombies pressing buttons on mobile phones and other gadgets.
Teachers in the UK are complaining about the uprise in such behaviour because they cannot conce...
The city council last night voted to spend $250,000 to install automotive-type airbags on all downtown lampposts.
The decision came after hundreds of pedestrians have been injured over the past few years while inadvertently walking into posts wh...
The President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, is now up in arms over spam texts, although, it must be added that on this occasion, it's not firearms.
Palestinians throughout Gaza are being inundated with unwanted spam text messages ur...
A program that provides subsidized phone service to low-income strippers has nearly doubled in size in Ohio in the past year - now covering more than a million strippers.
But the size of the program in the state - and profits to the increasing nu...
Following the release of the iPhone 5, the eyes of the world have turned their gaze back towards Cupertino, California and asked, "Oi! Apple! What else you got?"
The rumour mill is abuzz with reports of the technology giant's intention to release...
Special to TPN - Chairman Deborah Hearseman of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) announced that several major U.S. cities will test the practicality of constructing separate cell-phone lanes on interstate highways. The purpose of this...
A new law has been invoked to persuade mobile users to speak rather than text. Medical professionals are frequently treating mobile users with Short Thumb Syndrome, a disease which eats away at texting thumbs.
Doctor Sawyer of the University of La...
Millions of 02 customers turned up late for work this morning, all with the same excuse: they overslept because their alarm failed to go off.
"It sounds like a lame excuse," said O2 customer liaison officer, Tom O'Byle. "And in many ways it is. Ho...
LOS ANGELES - It seems that lately Justin Bieber has been giving Lindsay Lohan a bit of competition when it comes to the automobile department.
According to iRumors the Canadian singer has just found himself in a bit of hot water over talking on t...
The UK's fastest selling phone since the iPhone has been widely accepted as being superior in every respect to even the coveted iPhone 4, with Siri turned off. However, adopters of the phone have noticed that there is one thing it doesn't do, that ev...
Two U.S. students trapped in a hotel in India by marauding monkeys have spoken for the first time about their nine-day ordeal and how they survived without being able to twitter, use facebook or text, due to their being no cell phone coverage or "wi...
It's the device the whole world has been waiting for - a mobile phone made by The Spoof website - and it will be in shops as soon as next year.
The phone will look like any other modern phone-like device, but will be marked prominently with The Sp...
Microsoft is currently busy promoting their upcoming Windows 8 operating system designed for use on tablets and mobile phones as well as their traditional PC market. However, as a result of making Windows lean and mean enough to run on these devices...
As promised by Google, the Beta offering of their Android-based Chrome Internet browser has quickly been enhanced with the addition of the singular most requested feature from other platforms: the Aw Snap! screen.
Aw Snap! is Chrome's attempt to a...
Apps are wonderful things - they provide all manner of solutions to all manner of situations, demands, foibles, and even sexual desires.
But if nobody likes you?
There isn't an app for that.
And software engineer Johnny Soffit should know - he's been trying - and failing - to develop such an app for years.
"It all started when I received an Email from a person who claimed that nobody w...
Following Apple's successful patent litigation concerning its Slide-to-unlock technology, other mobile device software companies will need to look for suitable alternatives.
Google has been preparing for this eventuality by designing new unlock co...
It was never the intention, but so successful was a recent advert campaign staring Yoda, the diminutive Star Wars character has decided to go into business selling mobile phones with his own operating system that takes on Apple, Google, Microsoft and...